Reading Groups

The Short Stories of James Baldwin with Regina A. Bernard

Once a week Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT January 22 to March 11, 2024

Online via Zoom

The ‘With Book’ option includes a copy of Going to Meet the Man at a 10% discount from our Bookstore.

As a writer, James Baldwin alters the way you read literature. As a human being, he works to alter the way you exist in the world. In this eight-session course, we will focus on single stories in Going to Meet the Man and try to understand society as James Baldwin saw it and wrote it.

Participants should read this article ahead of the first meeting. We will be discussing Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin for the entirety of the course.

What to expect from this reading group: The structure of my course is conversational and participant-driven. There will always be prompts at the beginning of class, but the conversation is usually led by the group, and I serve as facilitator.

Led by

Regina A. Bernard

Regina A. Bernard

Regina A. Bernard, Ph.D., was born and raised in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City. She is a graduating pioneer of the M.A. in African American Studies at Columbia University and also holds several other graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Urban Education. Dr. Bernard’s research focuses on women of color and the ways of wellness. She is the author of three books on education, young women of color and feminism, and Black Studies. She has also published articles in the Journal of Pan African Studies, Small Farms Quarterly, Breathe Magazine UK, Inside Higher Education, and Audubon Magazine, among other publications.

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